Geography Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Geography is the study of the Earth's landscapes, features, inhabitants, and natural phenomena. It aims to understand the locations of various elements, the reasons for their presence, and how they evolve and transform over time.

• Question 1501: Which of the following is NOT characteristic of the International Date Line? Options:
  A) A traveller loses a day by crossing from the East to the West
  B) A traveller gains a day crossing from theWest to the East
  C) The line is appoximately along the 180° Merdian
  D) Local time is the same on either side
  E) The line has a zigzag shape
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1502: The export trade of Mali is based mainly on Options:
  A) groundnuts
  B) cotton
  C) cattle
  D) cocoa
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 1503: The greatest volcanic regions of Africa are found in? Options:
  A) Sudan and Ethopia
  B) the Maghrib
  C) Kenya and Tanzania
  D) the Cameroons
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1504: The movement of a group of people from a village to an irrigation project area may be described as Options:
  A) urban-urban migration
  B) rural-urban migration
  C) urban-rural migration
  D) rural-rural migration
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1505:

  The outer structure of the earth is made up of the following except?

  Options:
  A) Mesosphere
  B) Atmosphere
  C) Biosphere
  D) Hydrosphere
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1506: The older fold mountains are much lower in elevation and less rugged than the younger ones largely because they? Options:
  A) are less resistance to erosion
  B) have been subjected to greater instability
  C) have experience a longer period of denudation
  D) have been subjected to greater faulting
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1507:

  On maps, lines drawn to join all places in the ocean having equal degree of salinity are called?

  Options:
  A) isohalines
  B) isobars
  C) isosalines
  D) isossal
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 1508: A greater percentage of the population in Nigeria are engaged in? Options:
  A) public service
  B) commercial farming
  C) trading
  D) subsistence farming
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 1509:

  Which of the following lakes owes its origin mainly to faulting?

  Options:
  A) Lake Chad
  B) Lake Superior
  C) Lake Malawi
  D) Lake Victoria
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 1510:

  

  The ground distance along the river from the confluence of Rivers Obe and Opi to the bridge across River Obe is 5.5kilometres. What is the scale of the map in Representative Fraction?

  Options:
  A) 1:10,000
  B) 1:50,000
  C) 1:100,000
  D) 1:500,000
  E) 1:1,000,000
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  The correct answer is E .